Chapter 3: Creating Projects; About Adobe Captivate Projects - Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual

Last updated 4/22/2010

Chapter 3: Creating Projects

About Adobe Captivate projects

An Adobe Captivate project is a set of slides that are played in a desired sequence as a movie. Start creating an Adobe
Captivate project using one of the following options on the Welcome screen:
Choose a predefined template for your project.
From Template
Record events in an application or a screen area on your computer screen using Adobe Captivate.
Software Simulation
A series of screenshots is captured and placed sequentially in separate slides. A mouse, keyboard, or system event is
the usual trigger for a new slide. During recording, use the application or website you want to demonstrate as you
would normally—by moving the mouse, using the keyboard, and navigating through menus.
You can start from a blank project with the selected project dimensions. You could add Adobe
Blank Project
Captivate objects, import Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, images, audio, video, and animations, or even record
a software demonstration or simulation. For more information, see
page 24.
Microsoft PowerPoint Slides
Captivate project. You can later edit the PowerPoint presentations from within Adobe Captivate. For more
information, see "Microsoft PowerPoint" on page 208.
Import a set of images to create an image slideshow. For more information, see
Image Slide Show
from images" on page 24.
When working on similar projects or modules within a larger project, you could create projects from
Project Template
templates. Project templates ensure consistency and improve the efficiency of people working in a collaborative setup.
For more information, see"Create project
Combine multiple SWFs into a single project using the Aggregator. The Aggregator project can
Aggregator Project
then be published as a single SWF, or as a Windows or Mac executable. For more information, see
multiple SWF files with aggregator" on page 180
Mobile Projects (only if Adobe eLearning Suite is installed)
selecting the target mobile device in Adobe Device Central. Use the screen resolution of the device as the dimensions
for your project. Use Adobe Device Central to test the project on the target device.
You can add voice-over during recording, or at the editing stage.
After you create a project, you can edit it by doing the following:
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Edit content on the slides.
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Add Adobe Captivate objects such as text captions, buttons, text entry boxes, rollover captions, rollover slidelets,
highlight boxes and mouse pointers to the project.
• Add different media files, such as images, audio, video, and animations in multiple formats.
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Change the display times of slides and objects.
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Change the order of slides and objects.
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Add different kinds of slides, such as PowerPoint slides, image slides, and slides from other Adobe Captivate
projects to the project
DRAFT
You can import an entire PowerPoint presentation, or only selected slides, into an Adobe
templates" on page 25.
"Create a project starting with blank
Create an Adobe Captivate project for mobile devices by
22
slides" on
"Create a project
"Combining